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Jasmine Nossiter is only 9, but after filling several bags with rubbish while cleaning up a Northland beach she's angry and wants others to tidy up after themselves.

As part of a school project the Parua Bay School student was asked to choose a topic, make predictions about it and see if those predictions were right. Jasmine chose littering.

The project was supposed to take place at school but when Jasmine, who has had frequent bouts of pneumonia in the past, woke up sick her mother Anita Hollis kept her home. But Jasmine said she still wanted to complete the project so Urquharts Bay became the location to complete the assignment.

Some of the piles of rubbish Jasmine found at Urquharts Bay. Photo / Anita Hollis

In the letter Jasmine has asked the council 10 questions including "why are there no rubbish bins?" and "how can we tell people that littering is destroying our planet?".

Jasmine's plan to be clean and green doesn't stop there. She also wants to clean beaches in the area every Saturday and every Monday after school and would like to organise a beach clean-up. Her message to the people dumping rubbish is pretty simple: "Just stop littering".

Grant Alsop, waste and drainage field officer for WDC is away from work but had received the letter and was impressed with the work Jasmine and Ms Hollis had done. He promised to get in touch when he returned to work.